Pride Quotes

Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

Shame is pride's cloak.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

It's a weird feeling more than anything. You kind of have to swallow your pride a little bit, realize we won the game, be excited about it. We get to go back to D.C.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.